Azure Data Engineer Contracts

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 438 486
Rank change year-on-year -3 +48 +93
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 79 144 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.33% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.36% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 122 192
10th Percentile £413 £416 £450
25th Percentile £450 £463 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £650
90th Percentile £675 £650 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Azure Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Data Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -7 63 £500 -4.76% 23
London -14 43 £535 +1.90% 20
Work from Home +4 29 £475 -5.00% 17
UK excluding London +58 22 £500 - 6
South West +47 6 £475 -16.48%
Scotland - 6 £400 - 1
South East +44 5 £500 +8.11% 3
Midlands +20 3 £650 +35.06% 1
West Midlands +14 2 £650 +30.00% 1
North of England +10 1 - - 1
East Midlands +8 1 £388 -16.22%
Yorkshire +3 1 - -
Wales - 1 £550 -

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Azure Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (100.00%) Azure
2 51 (64.56%) SQL
3 46 (58.23%) Databricks
4 43 (54.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 37 (46.84%) Python
6 31 (39.24%) ETL
7 29 (36.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 27 (34.18%) Data Engineering
8 27 (34.18%) Analytics
9 22 (27.85%) Data Pipeline
10 21 (26.58%) Security Cleared
11 19 (24.05%) Data Modelling
12 18 (22.78%) Data Lake
13 17 (21.52%) Data Integration
14 16 (20.25%) PySpark
14 16 (20.25%) Social Skills
14 16 (20.25%) Power Platform
14 16 (20.25%) CI/CD
15 15 (18.99%) Data Transformation
15 15 (18.99%) Business Intelligence
16 14 (17.72%) SQL Server
16 14 (17.72%) Power BI
16 14 (17.72%) DevOps
17 13 (16.46%) SC Cleared
18 12 (15.19%) Data Ingestion
19 11 (13.92%) Azure SQL Database
20 10 (12.66%) AWS
20 10 (12.66%) Data Warehouse
20 10 (12.66%) Agile
20 10 (12.66%) Data Science

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.53%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.27%) Apache
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.27%) Drupal
3 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 79 (100.00%) Azure
2 43 (54.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 29 (36.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 16 (20.25%) Power Platform
5 10 (12.66%) AWS
6 9 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (10.13%) GitHub
8 6 (7.59%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (6.33%) Snowflake
10 4 (5.06%) dbt
10 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (3.80%) Collibra
11 3 (3.80%) Fivetran
11 3 (3.80%) Serverless
12 2 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.53%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.53%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.78%) Data Lake
2 14 (17.72%) Power BI
2 14 (17.72%) SQL Server
3 11 (13.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (12.66%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (7.59%) Big Data
5 6 (7.59%) Delta Lake
6 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.06%) Neo4j
8 3 (3.80%) Metadata
8 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.53%) Parquet
9 2 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (2.53%) Tableau
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.27%) InfluxDB
10 1 (1.27%) Spark SQL
10 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) GitLab
2 1 (1.27%) Poetry
2 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (20.25%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.66%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.13%) Finance
4 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Banking
5 3 (3.80%) Marketing
5 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.53%) Electronics
6 2 (2.53%) Front Office
6 2 (2.53%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.53%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Retail
7 1 (1.27%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.25%) PySpark
2 6 (7.59%) JSON
3 5 (6.33%) React
4 4 (5.06%) Plotly
5 2 (2.53%) .NET
5 2 (2.53%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.53%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.53%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.53%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (2.53%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (2.53%) Autofac
5 2 (2.53%) Dapper ORM
5 2 (2.53%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.53%) Kafka
5 2 (2.53%) pytest
5 2 (2.53%) REST
5 2 (2.53%) StructureMap
5 2 (2.53%) WCF
5 2 (2.53%) Web Services
6 1 (1.27%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.53%) Derivative
2 2 (2.53%) Equities
2 2 (2.53%) Fixed Income
2 2 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.53%) N-Tier
2 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (39.24%) ETL
2 27 (34.18%) Analytics
2 27 (34.18%) Data Engineering
3 22 (27.85%) Data Pipeline
4 19 (24.05%) Data Modelling
5 17 (21.52%) Data Integration
6 16 (20.25%) CI/CD
7 15 (18.99%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (18.99%) Data Transformation
8 14 (17.72%) DevOps
9 12 (15.19%) Data Ingestion
10 10 (12.66%) Agile
10 10 (12.66%) Data Science
11 9 (11.39%) Machine Learning
12 8 (10.13%) Visualisation
13 6 (7.59%) Actionable Insight
13 6 (7.59%) Dimensional Modelling
13 6 (7.59%) Mentoring
13 6 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (6.33%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 51 (64.56%) SQL
2 37 (46.84%) Python
3 5 (6.33%) C#
3 5 (6.33%) T-SQL
4 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.06%) Scala
5 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.53%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.27%) Java
7 1 (1.27%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.59%) Degree
3 6 (7.59%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.53%) MCPD
4 2 (2.53%) MCSD
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.13%) Terraform
2 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 46 (58.23%) Databricks
2 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.06%) Palantir
4 2 (2.53%) Informatica
4 2 (2.53%) SAP
4 2 (2.53%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle